English Language Skills Test

[Icarus]

Mags, Bruno; Lexicography is the compiling of dictionaries, while lexicology is the study of form, meaning, and history of words. Both have the stem lexical; The words of a language..... from the Greek: leksikos.  I swear I did not just  make those words up. 

You were both pulling my leg because you knew those words didn't you?

Random thought about linguistics:  it seems to me that we have a spectacular membership. We have speakers of Portugese, Spanish, Russian, French,  Brit speak, Norwegian, Aussie, Dutch,  and American (which is the bastardization of proper Brit speak). With all that, we are capable of understanding one another because our speakers of other languages are also fluent in English. I wonder at Marias skills, she must have both Greek and Turkish language characteristics. Magdalena, a Spanish speaker, has to re arrange her verbs and nouns to convey the English sentences in an English sort of way. My long time virtual friend, a Lithuanian, has a language mixture of Polish, Russian, and Scandinavian. His language places great emphasis on syllabic emphasis.  His Anglican name would be Justin. But his Lithuanian name is pronounced Yus TEE  nas.  My screen name would be Ik a ROUS. How ever can we hope to understand each other? It seems that Justin has perfect English that he can translate to his own language with accuracy and aplomb. I have been led to believe that in order to be fluent in another language, one has to be able to think in the other language. Those of you that can do that, my hat is off to you.



 

[Biggus Dickus]

Mags, Bruno; Lexicography is the compiling of dictionaries, while lexicology is the study of form, meaning, and history of words. Both have the stem lexical; The words of a language..... from the Greek: leksikos.  I swear I did not just  make those words up. 

You were both pulling my leg because you knew those words didn't you?

I admit I was pulling your leg Icarus, butt I can't speak for Madame Butterfly.

[Magdalena]

Mags, Bruno; Lexicography is the compiling of dictionaries, while lexicology is the study of form, meaning, and history of words. Both have the stem lexical; The words of a language..... from the Greek: leksikos.  I swear I did not just  make those words up. 

You were both pulling my leg because you knew those words didn't you?

I admit I was pulling your leg Icarus, butt I can't speak for Madame Butterfly.

Sure you were.
Need I remind you that you also got a B- on your test? 

[Biggus Dickus]

Mags, Bruno; Lexicography is the compiling of dictionaries, while lexicology is the study of form, meaning, and history of words. Both have the stem lexical; The words of a language..... from the Greek: leksikos.  I swear I did not just  make those words up. 

You were both pulling my leg because you knew those words didn't you?

I admit I was pulling your leg Icarus, butt I can't speak for Madame Butterfly.

Sure you were.
Need I remind you that you also got a B- on your test? 

I got a B+ just like you did. (Thought I felt you looking over my shoulder during the test)

[Magdalena]

Mags, Bruno; Lexicography is the compiling of dictionaries, while lexicology is the study of form, meaning, and history of words. Both have the stem lexical; The words of a language..... from the Greek: leksikos.  I swear I did not just  make those words up. 

You were both pulling my leg because you knew those words didn't you?

I admit I was pulling your leg Icarus, butt I can't speak for Madame Butterfly.

Sure you were.
Need I remind you that you also got a B- on your test? 

I got a B+ just like you did. (Thought I felt you looking over my shoulder during the test)

Psh! You would want that close to you, wouldn't you? Keep dreaming.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

25/30.